Hide apps completely

[AC Question]

I want to hide a few apps completely from my phone so that I wouldn't even know they're there. I guess sort of like those spy apps. I don't want them to show up even on the installed applications list, I don't want them just in a drawer or whatever. I tried renaming the apps and changing their icons, but that just voids their signatures. Can anyone please help me? It's quite urgent.
Thanks!

 

[Golfdriver97]

Welcome to the forums. Have you disabled the apps in Settings>Apps? Which apps are you referring to, and on what device?

 

[ReiSixx9]

Welcome to the forums. Have you disabled the apps in Settings>Apps? Which apps are you referring to, and on what device?

I want to still be able to use the apps while they're hidden so that won't do. I'm trying to hide Automate, Dropsync, and Dropbox on a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 running Kit Kat 4.4.2.

 

[Golfdriver97]

I don't know of a way to do this. Of you have an app installed, it has to show up in at least the installed applications list in settings.

 

[Laura Crusader]

I wouldn't no a way to do that, for it not to show up at the list. Get a 3rd party app. Atom launcher. You'll be able to hide the apps u want hidden. I used it for a few yrs now.

 

[ManiacJoe]

I want to still be able to use the apps while they're hidden so that won't do. I'm trying to hide Automate, Dropsync, and Dropbox on a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 running Kit Kat 4.4.2.

Hiding the apps is an interesting solution.
However, let's first talk about the problem you are trying to solve.

 

[ReiSixx9]

Hiding the apps is an interesting solution.
However, let's first talk about the problem you are trying to solve.

I'm trying to use this as a monitoring app for my friend's kid. We're trying to make it so her daughter doesn't know it's installed so she can't uninstall it.

 

[ReiSixx9]

I wouldn't no a way to do that, for it not to show up at the list. Get a 3rd party app. Atom launcher. You'll be able to hide the apps u want hidden. I used it for a few yrs now.

Thanks, but I don't want it just hidden in some app drawer where someone could easily find it.

 

[ReiSixx9]

Maybe there's a way I can change the names and icons of these apps without voiding the signatures so I could hide them in plain sight?

 

[hdboxmovie]

Automate, Dropsync, and Dropbox, this app is in the file system and then, if you want to delete the app, you have to root the device, be careful with this job

 

[ReiSixx9]

Automate, Dropsync, and Dropbox, this app is in the file system and then, if you want to delete the app, you have to root the device, be careful with this job

Which app is in the file system? I installed all of these apps from Google Play. And I don't want to uninstall or delete these apps, I just want to hide them so someone can't find them.

 

[CentroGeek]

I'm trying to use this as a monitoring app for my friend's kid. We're trying to make it so her daughter doesn't know it's installed so she can't uninstall it.

There's a few monitoring apps that come with fake names like system blah blah...

 

[ReiSixx9]

Yeah, I tried a few of those out and they'd definitely be easier, but I can't find one that monitors wrote everything I want. So I originally tried finding an app the would record the screen and then send me the videos periodically, but that didn't seem possible. So now I'm trying to get it so the phone takes screenshots and periodically syncs those to a drive. That way we can see everything her daughter's doing.

 

[ReiSixx9]

There's a few monitoring apps that come with fake names like system blah blah...

Sorry, forgot to quote you.

 

[CentroGeek]

Yeah, I tried a few of those out and they'd definitely be easier, but I can't find one that monitors wrote everything I want. So I originally tried finding an app the would record the screen and then send me the videos periodically, but that didn't seem possible. So now I'm trying to get it so the phone takes screenshots and periodically syncs those to a drive. That way we can see everything her daughter's doing.

Just food for thought.
Monitoring a phone won't help you too much in life....
Use a good parental control app that blocks safe mode too and that's it.

 

[ReiSixx9]

Just food for thought.
Monitoring a phone won't help you too much in life....
Use a good parental control app that blocks safe mode too and that's it.

The problem is my friend's tried so many parental control/monitoring apps and her daughter's still got in so much trouble over the years without anyone knowing.

 

[ReiSixx9]

I know there's programs that record or take screenshots of the device on the PC like Kahlown, but unfortunately I can't find any for Android.

 

[ReiSixx9]

Bump
(I don't mean to be annoying, but I really need to figure this out quick.)

 

[ReiSixx9]

There's a few monitoring apps that come with fake names like system blah blah...

Any suggestions on those apps? Maybe there's some I haven't seen that would at least help monitoring a bit.

 

[Golfdriver97]

The problem is my friend's tried so many parental control/monitoring apps and her daughter's still got in so much trouble over the years without anyone knowing.

Counter question...the trouble she got into, would it have been avoided if she didn't have a smartphone?